Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A woman handed valise and o
letter to telegraph operator at Grand
Forks, d. T., and told him to send them
over the wires.
No American has ever vet sue
ceeded in eating above twenty-five
pumpkin pies while trying ia make a
champion of himself.-DetrOit Free
Press.
A member of the San Bernardino
grand jury got tired of the monotonous
proceedings the other day and started
off on a prospecting trip. The sheriff
was sent after him, and had to travel
500 miles across the desert to reach the
absent juryman.
What is called ''seat" in the New
York Stock Exchange was sold recent
ly for $29, 900, but the man who bought
it will have to stand up all day and
shout at the top of his voice in order to
make profit on his investment.-BaL-
tlnlore american.
"A hardware man in Illinois is in
hard luck. He offered stove to any
person who would guess the correct
number of seeds in a pumkin in his
store window. One of the guessers put
the number at 240,787. There were
500 seeds, and six persons guessed the
correct number. Chicago Tribune.
"A chunk of boy asked Ticket
Seller Ayres for a half-fare ticket to
Cheshire, the other day. 'How old
are you?" asked the ticket seller.
Ten years DID," said the boy. "When
were you born?'' asked Mr.. Ayres
''Ten years ago." said the young Yam
kee. He got his half-fare ticket
Boston Journal.
The study of handwriting as an indi-
cation of character is very interesting.
The "Penciler'' has written twice to
Jay Gould to say that he would take
pleasure in examining scientifically
Mr.. Gould's signature at the end of a
one thousand dollar check, but he has
received no reply. Can Mr.. Gould be
away S0merciHe Journal.
The editor of the Washington
Critic, who has evidently visited fair
before, says: 1--WE expect to pay
twenty-five cents apiece for one con-
secutive fivc-cent cigar this very even
ing. Five cents for the cigar, five for
the beautiful hand we take it from,
five for the lovely eyes that look at il
go, five for the cherry lips that tell the
price. and five for charity; isn't that
cheap enough?'
While employees of the railroad
company were blasting rock to be used
as filling along the line of the Columbia
& Puget Sound road, they found, thirty
s. IL, s., -, Il
mass of petrified terredos imbedded in
the sandstone. 1t is stated by old resi-
dents on salt water that this is the first
instance they ever heard of where the
worm has been found petriied.-
SeGttle( w. T. Press.
An enthusiastic New York dentist
recently said in an address that if all
the workers in woods, metals and clays,
molders, porcelain workers and decora-
tors, painters and sculptors, ''were sud-
denly and simultaneously destroyed,
those arts would not be lost, for in the
ranks of the dentists could be found
experts in every one of them; and if in
the same grand catastrophe all the
scientists of certain classes were cut off
the same sciences could be fully taught
by dentists
On the planet Jupiter, according to
Swedenborg, men live to an age equal
to about thirty of our years. They be-
come bald at the age of twenty-nine.
and knowing this to be the sure precur-
sor of their death within year, they
instantly set about preparing them
selves for that event. When we re-
member how men act on this miserable
old earth after they become bald, we
don't see how they can ever look at
Jupiter without blushing for shame
LeaUenlCOTth Times.
One of the most admired perform
ers in a sensational dram recently pro-
duced in Cincinnati was big bulldog,
that at critical point in the play came
bounding out, and, Selling the villain
by the throat, or thereabouts. hung on
like grim death, amid uproarious APP
plause. The other night he grabbed
his man as usual, but something gave
way, and the dog fell near the foot
lights, and then he stood there and
calmly ate big piece of liver, which
had been fastened under the villains
throat and had hitherto been the in
centive for the dogs exertion.-C i1cirs-
natl Times.
twenty-five years ago Thomas
King. a young Englishman, came to
Manayunk, Pa, and there fell in love
with n young woman whom he would
have married had not George w. Knox,
a young man of the place, warned him
that she was not what he thought she
was. King found that Knox was right,
and was so thankful for his escape that
he said he would reward him when he
got rich. He went back to London,